Foreign Confidential ™

The estimated cost of the planned civilian court trial in New York City of Al Qaeda war criminals--enemy combatants captured abroad--is now $100 million. Click here for the story.

The obscene trial is an obvious security nightmare. A great deal of media attention has been given to plans for safeguarding lower Manhattan, the presumed location of the trial, against terrorist attack.

Missing from the national discussion of the Obama administration's disgraceful decision is the threat to other Manhattan locations--the possibilities, for example, of car-bomb attacks on crowded Midtown streets or in poorly protected, Upper East Side, high-rise apartment building parking garages, suicide bombers on subway trains or buses, and Mumbai-style swarming attacks on restaurants and stores, schools and nursing homes, and other soft targets elsewhere on the island or in the city's other boroughs.

Suburban cities and towns--and commuter rail lines--will also be targets. The Islamonazi enemy can be expected to go to any and all possible lengths to carry out the most vicious acts of revenge and hostage-taking on U.S. soil with a focus on the New York metropolitan area.

In other words, the Obama administration, which refers to terrorist attacks as "manmade disasters," is creating a manmade catastrophe.

It is up to the U.S. Congress to prevent it from happening.


POSTSCRIPT: Nearly 60% of U.S. voters favor waterboarding the captured Islamonazi terrorist--a young, Al Qaeda-connected man from an affluent Nigerian family--who tried to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Click here for the story. Obama has referred to the enemy alien as a "suspect."

PPS: Did KSM also confess to being involved in the bombing of TWA Flight 800? Click here for that story.